Vietnam
Vietnam's biggest rare earth mine produced nothing in 12 years and lost its licence; every operating plant is foreign-owned and runs on imported or recycled feed; tungsten is Masan's alone; foreign entrants have found exactly three ways in.
Vietnam
Vietnam's GDP, exports and stock market all hit records in 2025. But every dollar of export growth came from foreign firms, strip them out and Vietnam runs a trade deficit, and the stock rally came mostly from one conglomerate.
Vietnam
Vietnam's central bank didn't make money cheaper. It ordered banks to cut rates by set amounts and give up part of their profit to subsidize sectors the state picked.
Vietnam
Vietnam's second women's day commemorates a 1930 Communist Party resolution passed in Hong Kong. The Party's own chronicle gives that resolution no date, and the only entry for October 20 is a peasant protest.
Vietnam
A smuggling case involving staff at PNJ's gem-testing subsidiary prompted customers to sell back jewelry, leaving the retailer with payments to make and goods worth less than their buyback price.
Vietnam Economy
Cần Thơ firms propose recruiting in Cambodia even as people in Vietnam seek work, exposing the gap between available workers and jobs they will accept.
Vietnam
Son Doong holds the record for the world's largest single cave passage, and only one company is allowed to take visitors inside. Here is how it was found, what the six-day trip involves and what it costs.
Vietnam
A draft amendment would bar foreigners from owning villas and townhouses in Vietnam. Here is what the draft says, what it means for current owners, and when lawmakers vote.
Food
The same rice noodles can be dipped into grilled pork sauce, tossed in a bowl or served in soups with very different flavours.
Vietnam
Vietnamese people ask the question every Year of the Cat too; Qin bamboo slips and 10th-century Vietnamese texts use the rabbit, the cat first appears in a 1651 missionary dictionary, and one Vietnamese researcher went through the record on both sides.
Vietnam
Supermarkets are one of AEON's weaker earners, yet small stores lead its five-year Vietnam plan. It just sold the same MaxValu format in Thailand.
Vietnam
Vu Cao Dam's 1939 silk painting Conversation d'élégantes au jardin sold for HK$28.96 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong, a record for a Vietnamese artist. He started out as a sculptor.